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COUNTRY
REPORT
-Philippines
CORAZON Z. VIDAD
Department of Health
Center for Health Development
for CALABARZON
Philippines
REGIONAL PROFILE
Location: Southern portion of Luzon
Land Area : 4,692,410 hectares
Topography: flat coastal areas,
upland interior areas of slightly
moderate or undulating plains, hills
and mountains
Provinces: CAVITE, LAGUNA,
BATANGAS, RIZAL , QUEZON
(CALABARZON) IVA
Cities: 10
Municipalities: 132
Barangay: 4160
Population : 15% of the 84.6 M
RISK ASSESSMENT AND
MONITORING FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
1. Drinking Water Quality
Establish a scheme of monitoring the water
quality of different water sources
Private water concessionaires
Water Refilling Stations
Still working on the monitoring program for the
water districts and individual private water
operators
2. Health Care Waste Management
(HCWM)
Ensure the implementation of HCWM in
hospitals
through
coordination
and
collaboration with Licensing and regulation unit
of CHD-IVA and local government units
Technical assistance in the preparation of
HCWM
Monitoring on the implementation of their
HCWM plan
3. Technical Assistance
a)
to other national government agencies
Manila Bay Environmental Management
Project
Multi-Sectoral Forest Protection Committee
Promotion of Family Planning program to upland
communities to prevent continuous degradation of
forests
b)
To local government units
Capability building of sanitary inspectors
Responds to outbreak of any disease/incidents that
endangers the human lives
4. Gives recommendation to the Secretary of
Health the sites for presidential proclamation
5. Recommends the issuance of permits in the
operation of water refilling stations/water
bottling plants, and burial grounds
CURRENT STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION POLICY, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILS.
International Commitments:
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consents
Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and
Pesticides in International Trade
Bassel Convention on the Trans-boundary Movement of
Hazardous Waste
The Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances
CURRENT STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION POLICY, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILS.
Regulate, restrict, or prohibit the importation,
manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use
and disposal of chemical substances and
mixtures that present unreasonable risk and or
injury to health and environment;
Prohibit the entry, even in transit, of hazardous
and nuclear wastes and its disposal into
Phil.territorial limits;
CURRENT STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION POLICY, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILS.
Working on the development of a National
Implementation Plan on POP’s elimination
and ratification of the treaty by the
Philippine Senate;
Adoption
of
technologies.
cleaner
production
MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
A.
B.
BANNED PESTICIDES
DIOXINS (PCCD) AND FURANS (PCDF)
Based on preliminary results of the Phil. National PCCD
/PCDF Inventory in 1999, identified that uncontrolled
combustion processes, power generation and cooking
are the major sources.
Air had the highest PCCD/PCDF contamination that can
be attributed to uncontrolled combustion of agricultural
residues, firewood cooking, and biomass fired boilers .
MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINANTS
C. HEAVY METALS
Mercury
F. Hazardous Wastes
Estimated 2.41 M tons (642,985 tons from
CALABARZON) of hazardous wastes
generated annually
REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS,
INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTES
Presidential Decree 1152 – Phil.
Environment Code
Set guidelines for waste management
Provide measures to guide and encourage
appropriate government agencies in
establishing sound, efficient, comprehensive
& effective waste management
REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC
WASTES
Presidential Decree 1144
Created the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority
to assure adequate supply of fertilizers and
pesticides at reasonable price
To protect the public from risks inherent in the
use of pesticides
REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC
WASTES
Presidential Decree 856 – Code on Sanitation of
the Philippines
Provide guidelines in the implementation of sanitation in the
areas of water supply, refuse disposal, disposal of dead person,
domestic wastes, etc. ………
Republic Act 9003 – The Ecological Solid Waste
Management Act of 2001
Provide a comprehensive. Integrated and ecological
approach to solid waste management
REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC
WASTES
Republic Act 6969 – Toxic Substances and
Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of
1990
Inventory of chemicals and chemical substances
Listing of all existing chemicals and chemical
substances
Screening of harmful substances before entering the
Philippine commerce
REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC
WASTES
Republic Act 8743 – Phil. Clean Air Act of
1999
Prohibiting the use of incinerators for the
treatment and disposal biomedical, municipal
and hazardous wastes
Provision for the development of short term
and long term government programs on
reduction and elimination of POPs.
Some related experiences on Risk
Assessment
Explosion in the vinyl acetate monomer storage tank area
Explosion at the chemicals storage area
Several incidences of cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A outbreaks in different
locations